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(No Model.)

H I-I. LOOKL-ING.

GATE;

No. 295,569. Patented Mar. 25 1884.

UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFiCE.

HENRY HARRISON tooKnINe, or MAGNOLIA, IOWA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,569, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed September 4, 1883. (No model.)

[runs across and diagonally returns to the To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HARRISON LOOKLING, of Magnolia, in the county of Bar rison and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this specification. 1

Figure 1 represents a side View of the gate Fig. 2, a side view of the detachable bottom section; Figs. 3 and 4, details.

This invention relates to improvements in gates; and it consists in the construction here inafter set forth and claimed.

In the annexed drawings thc letters A A; indicate the posts between which the gate 13' is swung.

The frame of the gate consists of the end pieces, I) 1), middle piece, b", and one or more cross-pieces, b. The end pieces are made with slight mortises about which are secured the metal sockets H, the openings h of which are aligned with the mortises. In these sockets and mortises the ends of the crossrails b are secured. If desired, the sockets alone may be provided with mortises, and those in the end pieces not made.

Passing through the end pieces, 6 b, are bolts 0, made with eyes or hooks c on the inside, and having nuts and washers c on their,

outer threaded ends. These bblts are arranged so as'to be in pairsoppcsite each other, as shown. Secured toljthcse bolts, and running across the gate, arc strands D D D of barbed wire. r

Running diagonally acrossthe gate are two crossing barbed-wire braces, E E, which are secured to the top and bottom bolts, as shown; Where they pass the middle piece, b", they i may be held by a staple.

The top and bottom strands, D D, and the braces E E are made in one piece of wire,

as shown. This one piece of barbed wire commences at one corner of the gate, and

starting-point, as seen in Fig. 1, being held loosely in the eyes 0, except the one from which the wire starts. In this way the gate structure is braced by this continuous strand, and the latter is tightened by moving the bolt 0, from which it starts, without the necessity of moving the other bolts 0, to which such continuous wire is attached, the latter moving in the eyes of such other bolts. In fact, only one bolt 0 need be used for this wire. The other loops need only be simple eyes. The separate strands D may be of any desired number,

The lower ends of the pieces I) b have rabbets 0, which adapt them to receive a detachable section, F, which has corresponding rabbets, f. This section F consists of the three vertical strips ffj', corresponding to the pieces I) b I), and is furnished with hooked or eyed bolts C, similar to those on the gate. to which bolts are secured barbed strands D. This section F can secured to the bottom of the gate B by means of bolts passing through the meeting ends, and becomes apart of the gate structure. This section is to be used when it is desired not to have any open space below the gate, so as to keep small stock from slipping under it. By means of the nuts 0 on the bolts 0 the latter can be moved in and out of their holes in'the end pieces, thus enabling the strands to be tightened when required. In case of breakage, the damage can be quickly repaired. A spring-l:atch, G, readily holds the gate without any assistance when it is closed.

A. gate thus constructed is light and strong and well braced. The pieces I) b b b form a frame which can be readily seen, and if stock should strike against the gate the barbs will keep them from a second attempt.

Instead of making the gate-frame of wood, it may be all metal.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The frame I) b b b, in combination with the continuous wire-strand D D E E, the latter held loosely to the frame, except at one end, as set forth.

In testimony that I do claim the foregoing as my own I have aflixed my signature in pres ence of two witnesses.

HENRY HARRISON LOOKLING. Vitnesses:

FRANK W. ORIATT, ALBERT I. CUTLER. 

